And so this is how it begins: a man with no criminal record and no mental health issues is told by the state that he must turn in his legally-purchased arms to the state because they somehow accessed his medical records. Reader LC Scotty dropped this admission of tyranny into the comments of todays earlier post:

The NYS SAFE Act is billed as a necessary law to protect the public and keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people.

But Hamburg attorney Jim Tresmond says his client was notified by letter that his gun permit was suspended upon the recommendation of State Police, who learned the man is on anti-anxiety medication.

Claiming that he had taken some psychotropic medications, and that he no longer could be eligible for the pistol permit, Tresmond said.

The permit holder lives in Amherst and Tresmond accompanied the man as he turned in his seven handguns used for target-shooting to Amherst Police.

A law-abiding, honest, hard working professional, who never had one wit of scandal associated with him, criminal or otherwise. And they took his guns away, Tresmond said.

Tresmond is one of the attorneys already suing the state over passage of the SAFE ACT, which at the time was the toughest gun control law in the country.

Tresmond says his client once took a prescribed medication for his anxiety but he is not mentally ill. The Amherst man ended his prescription use within the last year.

He is a law-abiding citizen, no record. He is a stellar member of the community, I would say. Not an ex-felon. He is one of the nicest young men I have met in a long time, Tresmond said.

Officials confirmed state law permits the suspension of a gun permit before the permit holder even gets a chance to state their case.

Id suggest it is time for New Yorkers to take some time to pray this evening, and decide how much more tyranny they are willing to take.

How does that musty old document Cuomo and Bloomberg hate so much go again?

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.  That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,  That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Confiscation will not be done, en mass, with armored police raids. It will be done this way, over a generation or two, as registration requirements are tightened and reasons to own guns restricted. Little by little, a bit at a time, until gun owners are few and politically weak.

This process has been ongoing in New York for over a century. That is why there are so few gun owners in New York City now, because we let the Sullivan act fester there, unchecked, for a century.

It is a national scandal that such a major infringement as the Sullivan act, put into law to protect organized crime, was allowed to infringe on New Yorkers Constitutional rights for all this time.

These are the test cases... IMO... ... LEO agencies and bureaucrats experimenting and proving their tactics for passive surrender of legally owned firearms...

Hasn't this fancy-pants New York lawyer heard of an emergency injunction, ....or temporary restraining order in lieu of a hearing/ adjudication.

Never surrender your stuff without due process.... ...if they mount-up a raid team in the name of this bogus reason for confiscation-- --WELLLL-- There you have a stupid-endous tremendous example of overreach with clear violation of constitutional rights, particularly 2nd, 4th, 5th and 14th Amendment rights.

Just say'n...

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posted on 04/09/2013 8:24:02 PM PDT
by Wings-n-Wind
(The main things are the plain things!)

It will be done at the local level and the media will say nary a word about it. No one will know who else or where else it's happening IN ADVANCE OR DURING, with no way to protest against it en masse. Only after the fact will these instances become known, and limited to sites such as here but not Facebunk or major media.

Confiscation will not be done, en mass, with armored police raids. It will be done this way, over a generation or two, as registration requirements are tightened and reasons to own guns restricted. Little by little, a bit at a time, until gun owners are few and politically weak.

There is more going on here than just gun confiscation.

Back in the days of the USSR, the Communists used mental hospitals to jail people fpr political reasons.

We are seeing a broad based effort on the part of the US Government to use vague and totally subjective mental health criteria as a pretext to control people.

The Obama Administration is pulling this directly out of the Stalin/Lenin playbook.

A perfect example is using “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” as a pretext to confiscate firearms from military veterans and to prevent vets from having guns in their possession.

I’ll leave to peoples imaginations as to why the Obama Administration is so focused on preventing trained US military combat vets from having success to firearms.

No, Big Tim Sullivan was the New York Tamminy Hall organized crime boss that got the law passed. He was concerned that new immigrants were not so willing to pay protection money, and his boys were getting shot.

So he engineered the law that bears his name, where the corrupt New York City machine could decide who could legally have pistols, and who could not.

[[But Hamburg attorney Jim Tresmond says his client was notified by letter that his gun permit was suspended upon the recommendation of State Police, who learned the man is on anti-anxiety medication. ]]

Wherei n the consitution does it say soemoen on anti-anxiety medications is unfit to own a gun? Who determiend that he was unfit? What was their diagnosis? Was he under hteir care long enough for them to make that determination? What signs did he exhibit that warrented such a drastic action against him?

IF he miraculously wins this case- I hope to hell he sues the CRAP out of those who confiscated his guns-

It’s not a binary thing, there are more choices than either 1) hand over the guns or 2) be shot by a SWAT team. His attorney could have taken custody of the firearms and arranged for safe storage while the case settles, but for some reason the lawyer thinks it’s OK to let the Police hold them. I’m not sure I’d have gone the route they did. Maybe he couldn’t take custody, even though he’s an officer of the court.

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posted on 04/09/2013 9:29:11 PM PDT
by Cyber Liberty
(I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)

Great! So they started with the street gangs, taking their guns first?

They do not want to be called racists, so this will never happen. The gang bangers will be allowed to keep their weapons. And people wonder why I plan on becoming an expat. The psychopaths are running the asylum.

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posted on 04/09/2013 11:26:46 PM PDT
by Mark17
(My body is in California, but my heart is in the Philippines)

Registration even through so called background checks (that are supposed to be erased after 3 days but are forever in the computer) = confiscation. How many boys are forced to take Ritalin by the central controlled education system? Guess what they can’t own a gun. See where this goes?

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posted on 04/10/2013 12:13:58 AM PDT
by fella
("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")

“Confiscation will not be done, en mass, with armored police raids. It will be done this way, over a generation or two, as registration requirements are tightened and reasons to own guns restricted. Little by little, a bit at a time, until gun owners are few and politically weak.”

The local sheriff here is giving speeches before women’s groups, urging them to buy weapons and learn how to use them.

Basic physics: For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.

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posted on 04/10/2013 6:18:05 AM PDT
by sergeantdave
(No, I don't have links for everything I post)

Socialist fascism is a pure born evil. Islam is it’s true origin of birth. We will overcome, once again. The greatest social experiment in human history, will not die, by moral vagrancy. We will overcome, once again.

But I think at some point they will go too far, and a fire may start. It's mighty dry tinder in a lot of places.

I very severely doubt it. Ain't nobody got time for that. Besides, American Idol is on.

See, we keep going over how the Constitution has been violated. It's happened and is happening on both sides of the aisle. The Constitution, for all intents and purposes, is nothing more than a piece of paper and a history listen. It has no place in modern times, but for some reason we keep talking about how it's so important. It CANNOT be ignored, and oh how we rail against the criminals.

In the end, we do nothing. We shake our heads when another attack happens. We shake our fists in the air and b*tch to no one in particular when pols piss all over the Constitution. Yet we do NOTHING.

Let's face it: the Great Experiment has been concluded, and we ultimately failed. Because we continue to do nothing.

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